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[Bug localedata/4628] New: Add iso 8601 date/time variants for EU countries
- From: "nicolas dot mailhot at laposte dot net" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 11 Jun 2007 20:42:59 -0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/4628] New: Add iso 8601 date/time variants for EU countries
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
Iso 8601 is a clean date/time specification which is used by many people within
the EU (it has been proposed as standard to the European Commission but it has
not acted on the proposal yet)
It would be nice if there was a way to select it for locales of EU countries
(not the default as it's not the "official" format yet). In my particular case,
for France
Googling shows one workaround is to set LC_TIME as en_DK
However:
1. changing LC_TIME is not really an option in many cases (RedHat init scripts
for example only consider LANG)
2. setting LC_TIME as en_DK translates month & day names in English. What most
people want is use iso 8601 conventions for compact forms (2007-06-11, week
number, etc) and keep localised names and abbreviations
I'd really love if fr_FR.UTF-8@iso-8601 or something similar existed as locale name
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Summary: Add iso 8601 date/time variants for EU countries
Product: glibc
Version: unspecified
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: localedata
AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
ReportedBy: nicolas dot mailhot at laposte dot net
CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4628
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